Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Anti-harassment/Allow checkusers to use user-agent variables in Abusefilters/Proposal/en

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  • Problem: With AbuseFilters, there are several ways to target long-term abusers and harassers, including IP adresses, but we lack one which could be powerful: user agent (UA).
  • Proposed solution: Add a user-agent variable to AbuseFilter. This would require first that CheckUser-level abuse filters to be created.
  • Who would benefit: Everyone, especially victims of harassment; sysops, patrollers and anyone that fights long-term abuse (with harassment or not); checkusers who are abusefilters editors.
  • More comments: The only downside that I see is that it would require some CheckUsers to be familiar with Abusefilters and regexes.
  • Phabricator tickets: phab:T234155 and phab:T50623
  • Proposer: — Jules* talk 20:06, 2 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]